Excerpt from Brief Developing Title to Public Lands: From Fundamental Sources, Filed With Chairman Federal Relations Committee Legislature of State of California, January, 1913Massachusetts, New York, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia, in addition to considerable areas of unoccupied former crown lands and colonial proprietary lands, had claims to unoccupied western lands. The claims of Virginia, Maryland, Connecticut, and Massachusetts overlapped in the territory north west of the Ohio river; the lands of North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia were farther south.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition.

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